Court Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

— William Billings

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost…

— William Lloyd Garrison

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

— William Graham Sumner

“In our hands is a placed power greater with their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring…

— Ralph Chaplin

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which…

— Charles Sumner

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action…

— Charles Spurgeon

“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We don't recognize…

— Thomas Mann

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

— Philip Sidney